Culture Moves Europe: three years of support to Ukrainian artists and cultural professionals
Culture Moves Europe has supported more than 360 Ukrainian artists and cultural professionals with their mobility projects since 2022, worth more than €700 000.
The support that Culture Moves Europe (CME) offered since it started in 2022, extended not only to those based in Ukraine, but also to Ukrainian nationals residing in other Creative Europe countries, including refugees. One in four Ukrainian grantees was a resident in another Creative Europe country.
Insights on participation
The results of the first edition of CME also reveall insights about participation and mobility conditions:
Gender balance
Due to the travel restrictions imposed on men in Ukraine, 75.4% of lead grantees based in the country were women.
Sustainable travel
Around 80% of Ukrainian grantees used low emission means of transport, and most of them qualified for the additional “green travel top-up” that CME offered.
Highlighted projects
A great number of projects focused on cultural heritage. For example, Svitlana, Liudmyla, Oleksandra, Olena and Yevheniia, 5 librarians from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute went to the Delft Library in the Netherlands to learn about digitisation, conservation and restoration of rare and valuable documents in order to continue their work of preserving Ukrainian literary heritage. The project focused on preserving, developing and popularising the collections of rare editions stored in the Library of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
These are unique books, [that are part of] the historical, cultural and scientific heritage of Ukraine. The war threatens to destroy our historical heritage, and we must fight to preserve it for future generations. International cooperation and knowledge sharing can help in this regard
- said Svitlana Petrunovska, one of the librarians participating in the project.
Dancer Mariia Bakalo did her mobility project in Athens, Greece. Mariia collaborated with EXIS Dance Company and ISON school which provide performing arts education and means for creative expression for disabled and non-disabled dancers in Athens. Through practice and exchange, she was able to expand her knowledge of inclusive dance.
New Culture Moves Europe calls in the fall of 2025
New Culture Moves Europe calls will be published in the autumn, offering more opportunities for Ukrainians to apply. These calls will include virtual mobility projects for those applicants who are not able or allowed to leave the country.
Stay tuned for more information after the summer!
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